Joel 4:12-21
Lk 11:27-28
As much as we see so much of sin and evil happening around us, yet the great consolation is that the world has not become hell. And it won't!
That is because the good that is inborn in every human being will keep resisting evil.
Though evil may often triumph, yet it can never conquer.
It may win a battle, but that does not mean that it has won the war.
God gave us a promise through the prophet Joel in the 1st reading:
The Lord will be a shelter for His people, a stronghold for the sons of Israel (Joel 4:16)
In the face of evil, we have to stand on God's promise, otherwise we will not stand at all.
We can remain standing in the fight against evil only when we listen to the Word of God and keep it.
The Word of God urges us to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute us.
When we keep God's word and live it out in our lives, then evil will lose its power and its sting.
Indeed, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it, for they will bring love and peace into the world.